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Departmental Press
Mrs. Lait: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 2 July 2008, Official Report, column 1003W, on departmental press, if he will (a) estimate the cost of answering the Question and (b) set out the cost assumptions on which that estimate is based. [225555]
Kevin Brennan: The information requested by the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) cannot be separately identified on the Cabinet Office’s accounting system. To seek to identify the costs involved would require consulting individual budget holders across the Department who in turn would have to identify relevant expenditure in order to obtain a total for the Department. The Department estimates that the cost of obtaining this information would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold as stated by my hon. Friend the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 28 November 2006, Official Report, column 87WS.
Drugs: Death
Norman Lamb: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many (a) men and (b) women died from drug misuse in each year since 1997. [227510]
Kevin Brennan: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated October 2008:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many (a) men and (b) women died from drug misuse in each year since 1997. (227510)
The table attached provides the numbers of deaths for which the underlying cause was drug poisoning, where any drug controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 was mentioned on the death certificate, for (a) males and (b) females, from 1997 to 2007 (the latest year available).
| Table 1 : Number of deaths from drug misuse,( 1) males and females, England and Wales, 1997 to 2007( 2, 3) | ||
| Male | Female | |
| (1) Cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) for the years 1997 to 2000, and Tenth Revision (ICD-10) for 2001 onwards. Deaths were included where the underlying cause was due to drug poisoning (corresponding ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes are shown in the following table) and where a drug controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 was mentioned on the death certificate. (2 )Figures include deaths of non-residents. (3 )Figures are for deaths registered in each calendar year. | ||
Employment
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what the employment rate was of (a) people, (b) UK citizens and (c) UK-born people aged over 50 years old in (i) each year since 1997 and (ii) each of the last eight quarters for which figures are available. [225147]
Kevin Brennan: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated October 2008:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking what the employment rate was of (a) people aged over 50 years of working age (b) UK citizens aged over 50 years of working age and (c) UK-born people aged over 50 years of working age in (i) each year since 1997 and (ii) each of the last eight quarters for which figures are available. (225147)
The attached table gives the employment rates of people aged between 50 and state pension age for the categories requested.
The estimates are derived from the Labour Force Survey. UK citizens are defined as those who report their nationality as UK at the time of the survey.
As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
| Employment rates( 1) for people aged between 50 and state pension age( 2) United Kingdom, not seasonally adjusted | ||||
| Percentage | ||||
| UK population | UK nationals | UK born | ||
| (1) The employment rate is the number of people in employment as a percentage of the total number in the relevant group. (2) Men aged 50-64 and women aged 50-59. Note: It should be noted that the estimates exclude people in most types of communal establishments (e.g. hotels, boarding houses, hostels, mobile home sites etc.) Source: Labour Force Survey. | ||||
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what proportion of the increase in the employment of people of working age since 1997 was accounted for by (a) foreign nationals and (b) workers born abroad. [226634]
Kevin Brennan [holding answer 13 October 2008]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated October 2008:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking what proportion of the increase in the employment of people of working age since 1997 was accounted for by (a) foreign nationals and (b) workers born abroad. (226634)
Between April-June 1997 and April-June 2008, foreign nationals accounted for 52 per cent of the increase in the employment of people of working age (men aged 16-64 and women aged 16-59). The corresponding figure for workers born abroad was 67 per cent.
Foreign nationals are defined as those who report their nationality as non-UK at the time of the survey.
The estimates are derived from the Labour Force Survey. As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many people in employment in the UK were (a) UK citizens, (b) citizens of other EU states and (c) citizens of non EU states in each year since 1978. [226635]
Kevin Brennan [holding answer 13 October 2008]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated October 2008:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many people in employment in the UK were (a) UK citizens, (b) citizens of other EU states and (c) citizens of non EU states in each year since 1978. (226635)
The attached table gives the number of people in employment for the categories requested, from April-June 1995 to April-June 2008. Comparable data prior to 1995 are not available. The table excludes those whose nationality is not known.
Citizenship is defined as the nationality reported by respondents at the time of the survey.
The estimates are derived from the Labour Force Survey. As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
The figures in the table are derived from the LFS microdata which are weighted using the official population estimates published in autumn 2007. They are not entirely consistent with the figures published in the monthly Labour Market Statistics First Release which are weighted using more up-to-date population estimates.
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